Anyone who has conducted a job interview, or who has been interviewed knows how stressful the process can be. The interviewer is often stressed because they must walk a fine line between conducting a comprehensive interview and adequately vetting any potential applicant while also taking care to honor a plethora of employment and labor laws....
Employers typically endorse the use of social media in the workplace for professional or job-related use because it can encourage communication, collaborative exchange of ideas, and employee engagement with co-workers and supervisors. Employee use of social media can also expose employers to certain liabilities, however. For instance, employers can be held liable for defamation or...
Just a couple short weeks ago, the New York Times published an explosive article about film producer Harvey Weinstein, revealing allegations of sexual harassment that spanned decades and accusations of him engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior toward women with whom he has both supervised and mentored throughout his career. Since the New York Times article...
In 2016, before his impending departure, President Obama declared October “Domestic Violence Awareness Month.” The U.S. Department of Justice has defined domestic violence as “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological...
Following the 2016 general elections on November 8, 2016, seven states passed new marijuana laws, bringing the total to 28 states, plus the District of Columbia, that now permit medical or recreational marijuana usage. Although the number of individual states that have passed marijuana laws continues to grow, marijuana use is still prohibited by Federal...
I felt the push to be a lawyer probably from about the time I was eight years old. At that time, I did not fully know what it meant to practice law, but I thought it sounded like an honorable profession and seemed as though it was something at which I would excel. I’ve always...
According to the National Employment Law Project, an estimated 70 million people in the United States—nearly one in three adults—have an arrest or conviction record. Incarceration is detrimental for many reasons, but one very significant reason is the barrier it creates in securing employment. In a recent survey, a total of 92% of responding employers...
